HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2295, 11 August 1881, Page 3

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARD.

A meeting of the Board was held last Wednesday. Present —Mr Hawkes and the Mayor of Sydenham. In the absence of Mr Thomson, Mr Hawkes took the chair. The Hospital committee reported that during the fortnight ending August, twenty patients were admitted into the Hospital and fifteen discharged, leaving sixty-two patients in the institution. During the same period one death occurred. The number of patients in the Hospital for the corresponding period of last year wss fifty-five. Correspondence was read from the Government and the several local bodies to whom the financial statement of the Board was sent, acknowledging the receipt of the same with thanks.—The Secretary (Mr March) reported that a donation of clothing and books for the inmates of the Ashburton Home had been received from Mr B. Watson through Mr Preston.

A letter was read from Mr George Froggatt, late caretaker at the Hospital cottage, Akaroa, asking that an enquiry into the whole circumstances of his dismissal might be held, and the whole of the correspondence on the matter produced. —Mr March laid before the Board the whole of the correspondence on the subject of the dismissal of Mr and Mrs Froggatt. —Mr Hawkes thought the wisest course would be to appoint a sub-committee to go through the whole matter and see whether there was any injustice, as alleged by Mr Froggatt.—After some discussion, it was resolved, on the motion of the Mayor of Sydenham—“That a sub-committee be appointed, consisting of the chairman, the Mayor of Sydenham, and Mr Hawkes, to enquire into the case of the discharge of Mr and Mrs Froggatt from the Akaroa Cottage Hospital. The report and returns of the hospital cottage at Akaroa wore road. The report stated that on August Ist two patients were in the hospital, one of whom had since been discharged.—A report was road from the master of the Orphanage, stating that during the month of July two boys were withdrawn. The numbers in the institution on July 31st were —Boys, 52 ; girls, 44.—0 n the suggestion of the chairman, it was resolved to instruct the medical officer to have all children above the age of seven years revaccinated, and all those under that age who have not yet been vaccinated to undergo the operation.—lt was decided in re the case of Goodall, a hoy who had absconded from his master, that ho should bo brought up when arrested by the police for breaking his indentures.

A letter was read from the Timaru Hospital Commissioners, asking whether the medical staff had beer allowed to them. The secretary was directed to reply that the staff did not receive any beer.—The report of the Ashburton Homo was read, stating that there were forty-two inmates in the home, and that two had left during the week.—After disposing of some charitable aid cases, the Board adjourned.

But three Czars have occupied the throne of Russia during this century, so that the average reign has been twenty-seven years. The R.M. b.b. Bokhara brought sixty-two bags of mail matter for New Zealand by the Suez mail.

The late Mr R. O. Bagot loft only a house end ground at Plemington to his wife, and a £SOO life policy to his son. Mr Edmund Ashworth, who was associated with Messrs Oobden and Bright in founding the Anti-Corn Law League, died recently.